UPDATE: the problem disappeared after I reinstalled mikTeX. Please thus consider the question closed.
When trying to compile an empty document with mikTeX/pdfLaTeX and WileyNJD-v2 class, I get a strange error message:
*geometry* driver: auto-detecting
*geometry* detected driver: pdftex ! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...n {para/end}\@kernel@after@para@end
\mode_if_horizontal:TF {\i...
l.16 \maketitle
Below is the source file. There is nothing in it, so I cannot even guess what to search for.
\documentclass[AMA,STIX1COL]{WileyNJD-v2}
\articletype{Article Type}%
\raggedbottom
\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author[1]{DK}
\author[2]{DG}
\address[1]{\orgname{YYY}}
\address[2]{\orgdiv{XXX}}
\corres{*DG. \email{[email protected]}}
\abstract[Summary]{Summary.}
\keywords{KW1, KW2}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
This is an introduction
\end{document}

